This aint to bad really.....dont focus solely on boot times only though.

Has the systems multitasking capabilities improved somewhat?

How long do individual programs take to load when you have...

Not only should you check whats loading at startup but also what's running in the background.....Make sure your boot sequence is set to 'normal' and run through these computer maintenance steps:
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This looks like a subnet route.

Maybe you should ask the customer for an ipconfig/all from the host to establish the actual clients addresses to be forwarded from the network.

Not sure if you have tried yet, but maybe one of these hacks will help?
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Go into the routers configuration settings and make sure that DHCP is enabled.

The router is your DHCP server and will issue IP addy's for all computers hooked to your LAN dynamically.
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Hi Jayne.

Looks as though your new laptops network adaptor sees the wireless router downstairs as your network lists as available.

You need to make sure that the laptops settings are identical...

No probs my friend......please let me know how things develop for you.

Format and clean install Windows dude......I know I sound like an ISP tech support guy, but this is often the best way to achieve results as a last resort, and i think we need to pull our 'last...

Its got me buggered...If you have tried to reinstall the drivers, have tried to remove the winsock & winsock2 from the registry and reinstalled the tcp/ip protocol using the
nettcpip.ini file. ...

LMAO!

You'll be doing a favour for whoever owns it.

I Have your back Bro!

Nah.....this just means that your computers IP addy is assigned dynamically by DHCP.

If connection is established, but IE wont display the web page, its an issue with the embedded browser itself...

Wooot! Great News.....At least we have a connection now!

What exactly do you mean by 'It didnt work'?

When you open your browser (IE7) do you get an error message, and does the same thing occur...

Yeah, shutdown, remove the Linksys NC100 fast ethernet adaptor and reboot.

We will use the Intel pro 100 ve for attempted connection.

Go to the control panel again - network connections....

No IP addy allocated for Local area connection3? DHCP is not enabled.

Are you supposed to be recieving your IP addy dynamically or statically?

From the control panel:
Open "network...

You say you have tried Winsockfix so that covers that area.

Also say you have run ipconfig/release.....what showed up?
Did it show the usual IP assigned to the ethernet.
Is the ethernet DHCP'd...

Your logfile is clean and there's nothing untoward in there that should be stopping us.

Just an old remenant of the AVG8 uninstall that you can have HJT take out if you like

O2 - BHO: AVG Safe...

You can send a new log if you like and as long as your logged in as Admin, nothing else should matter.

I just saw something in your logs that i missed before.....your running AVG8 which is famous...

Please run HijackThis again and click "Scan".

Place checks next to the following entries in the code below and close all browser and other windows except for HijackThis, and click "Fix Checked".
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Lets have a look and see if there's anything lurking in your registry that shouldn't be!

Download a copy of HiJackThis and save it to a folder on your desktop.

Do a scan and save a logfile.
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yeah.....quite an expensive exercise for no result!

P.S Guess it can only be soft related or bad sectors on the HDD

Test and repair them with freeware apps from here:...

CPU's either work or they dont....unless its heat related, its unlikely that they fail causing random shuts then allow start up later on.

I was going to suggest its possibly software related with...

Yeah.....I dont think its possibly an issue with your ISP restricting access to the modem (although we all know how crazy they are becoming these days), its got to be an issue with the router and its...

Dont ask me how this matters or why, but i resolved a similar issue with remote desktop by making sure i created administrator user accounts on each PC and logged in with a password on...

The back up of files from your primary drive C are also infected.... The only thing i can think of is that this is causing infections within your clean install of windows on the C drive after a...

The malware is hiding itself when it sees the HJT executable.

You have not renamed the executable as required.

Refer again to post 4 please, rename the executable then send us a new log.

Your log looks clean so you should disable chkdsk from scanning c:/ at windows bootup.

Since your running XP, to do this open the command prompt (start/run and type command)

When the command...

did you see them in Task manager?

If so, did you kill them?.....if your having a problem just continue on and complete instructions ending with posting a new log and we will take it from there!
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It should be plastered on the side of your case!

If you still have the OS installed, use this software to reveal it stored in your registry:
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Besides a couple of 'unknown' applications that i dont recognize as nasty and a few 'unkown' processes which seems ok to me, i cant see anything in your logs?

Do you know what these are?
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We are missing something here!

You need to be more specific and let me know each stage that your able to go through with the install procedure and then point out EXACTLY where it fails so i can...

Sounds like a bad disc sector or write error then!

Did you burn the OS onto the disc yourself or is it a genuine XP install disc?

Have you set your bios to boot from the install disc?

mmm....this is very unlikely, but you probably mean PSU which is also out of the question.

The monitor most probably comes on through its seperate AC power connector but you most likely see a 'no...

What exactly happens when you say it wont power up? Do you hear any fans or hard drives spinning up, any beep codes but no monitor signal or just plain old nothing?
No lights, no sounds, nothing?

yup!

Download a copy of HijackThis and save it to your desktop in a folder.
Do a scan and save the HijackThis logfile. Do not remove anything.
Post your log file here.
Link to HijackThis:
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Ok....some of the newer malware variants are capable of hiding themselves when they see HJT.

You have also not done everything as specified because the dead browser helper object still remains:
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A couple of infections still remain so i would like you to complete the following steps as closely as possible:

Please print out, or copy this page you are reading now to Notepad since you CAN...

Sorry....for windows vista mail select tools/accounts, highlight your mail address then click 'properties' and select the 'servers' tab.....this should let you set your correct ISP mail server...

Yup, as cguan_77 suggests, SMTP is the outgoing mail server ..Make sure that your ISP's correct domain name is listed in the box labelled 'Outgoing mail server (SMTP).

It should be the same domain...